Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Core i7-6700 vs Core i5-1235U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1235U beats the Core i7-6700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-6700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i7-6700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1235U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. The Core i5-1235U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.